I made an error in my last reply — sorry. Obsidian does still highlight single-bracketed text, as @anon63144152 says. I’m using the Minimal theme, which doesn’t do that. I mistakenly thought the root problem had been fixed.
To be clear, what you’re seeing isn’t a link. The editor is highlighting them to look like links, but they won’t act like links if you click on them. Switch to Reading View to see a more accurate rendering. If you are exporting your notes to share, they should look correct (unless you are sending them the note as-is and they are viewing it in Obsidian). If you just find the behavior annoying, I understand — it irritated me when I had to live with it.
So, you can:
- Live with incorrect rendering, safe in the knowledge that they’re not real links.
- Use @eightning’s CSS snippet to fix it.
- Use a different theme (Minimal does the right thing; I don’t know about others).